Hey, look at this week's big new films!: “About Last Night”... “Endless Love”... “RoboCop”.... Were the last three decades merely a dream? If they were, I surely would have left my waking self a note somewhere, listing the next 30 Superbowl winners, several major tech startups, and a peek into real estate values.

As diverse as Quentin Tarantino's first films (“Reservoir Dogs,” “Pulp Fiction,” “Jackie Brown”) were in tone (tragic, comic and romantic, respectively), they all took place within roughly the same world and the same...

Burbank native Leslie Iwerks took on the daunting task of compacting 35 years of history on George Lucas' visual effects company, Industrial Light & Magic, into her documentary on the company's evolution that will be seen this weekend on Encore.
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